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To: James Burke who wrote (844)1/9/1997 2:54:00 PM
From: Randy Tidd   of 213177
 
> Mach (NextOS) Kernel is already ported to PowerPC
> according to Mac the Knife.

This is true. The NeXT environment (Mach included) has been ported to and shipped on Motorla 68K, Intel, Sun Sparc, and HP. Ports were mostly completed but never shipped for PowerPC / Motorola 88K.

The technical work was essentially done, but the product was never shipped so it wasn't polished or fully tested. This is one of the things that struck me about the Apple/NeXT deal -- the NeXT environment was already mostly ported to Apple's hardware.

Randy
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